Jury Duty

Can we talk about something for a minute? It's called jury duty. Sometime in late August (around the same time I stopped blogging) I got called in for jury duty and ended up serving on a trial. A trial that was expected to last for at least 3 weeks. Part of me was excited that I would get so much knitting time and a "vacation" from work. But it wasn't really a vacation since I had to do work anyway and the knitting I did get done was a lot of re-knitting. I did finish some nice armwarmers that are perfect for the weather we're getting right now.

More on these later...

And then something crazy happened - I didn't knit on anything else. I also tried to process a fleece during this time. After that was "done" (I got about a third of one fleece processed), I didn't spin anymore. I was slowly losing the desire to craft. It probably was a combination of how draining the jury duty process was, how busy work has gotten, and how much crafting I had been doing before (I think I was on crafting overload), but I still haven't picked up my needles since I finished those armwarmers and I find that really strange.

So I guess I'm not talking about jury duty so much as I am about my non-craftiness, which is why I've been almost absent from the blog, Ravelry, etc. I'm even behind in all the podcasts I watch/listen to. But I can tell you what I have been doing - cooking. I guess that's some form of creativity, even if it is just following a recipe most of the time, but it's better than nothing.

I've made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies...

and kale and Italian meatball soup...

and spinach and egg pizzettes...

and double fudge chocolate chip cookie dough cookies...

and caramel apple crumble cheesecake...

and snickerdoodles...

and chocolate chip cookies...

So I guess it's okay that I haven't been crafting much, because I've sure been baking a lot.